He toured around the world and performed at the 1995 state dinner that then-President Bill Clinton hosted for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil. Lewis had more than 80 albums to his credit - three dozen of them with Chicago-based Chess Records. He accepted the award from his mentor and fellow Jazz Master, pianist Billy Taylor.ĭuring his career, Lewis performed with musical stars such as Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Al Jarreau and Pat Metheney. "It gave us a lot of opportunity to try our ideas and learn what it means to perform in front of an audience," Lewis said as he was named National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007. He spent his early days in Chicago using his gospel and classical roots to create his own jazz style in the many neighborhood venues that hired young jazz musicians. "I just know that when I put my hands on the piano it's going to flow."
"Life is a solo, and it continues," Lewis said, sitting at the dining room table in his downtown Chicago home. Ramsey Lewis described his approach to composing and performing in a 2011 interview with the AP. He was that way even through his last breath." "Most people say when they met dad that he was a class act.
Eventually, you'll look back and be amazed at how far you've come."He was just at peace," Bobby Lewis told The Associated Press on Monday night. You should always be working on at least one piece that challenges you. If you're struggling with your left hand, find a song that's hard in the left hand. Simply choose pieces that are a little out of your league in technical ability or pieces that require techniques you're just not good at, and you will get better. Don't find the most difficult piece you can and jump right in. Only when my teacher would give me songs that, in my mind, were way beyond my abilities did I manage to improve. I don't mean to say you cannot play easy songs that are beautiful, or you have to learn Chopin's complete list of études I simply state the obvious by positing that challenging yourself will naturally make you better. They stick to playing songs that are, quite frankly, not challenging them. In fact, most of my friends who play piano fail to challenge themselves, which is almost always why they don't improve. Too often, students will get caught in the rut of only playing songs they know they can play. Just as a bodybuilder must lift heavier weights to get stronger, a pianist should play more difficult pieces to improve.
You need to actively challenge yourself if you want to get better.
This may seem obvious, but many pianists (or people practicing any skill for that matter) fail to challenge themselves. Just make sure that you choose pieces that will challenge you because you won't improve if you only do what you already know you can succeed at. In the end, I'm not trying to say you can't play modern pieces or other songs, but you will improve if you add in some classical pieces. Bach's preludes and fugues prove to be excellent beginning pieces because they in particular place an emphasis on technique while still being quite playable. Synth EP Review: "Australia EP #1 – Adelaide" by gribblesįor those of you who know nothing about classical music, here are a few classical composers whose pieces would be great to learn: Bach, Chopin, or really any classical etudes (for the very daring).
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